New #review today: "#JackHertz is a California based composer and synthesist who is very prolific, releasing over 125 recordings between his 2010 debut, Streaming Landscape, and 2023, and as time goes forward the frequency of his releases is only increasing, to the point now where there is something new coming out every month..." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jack-hertz-starfish-3.html

New review today for #YumiHara: "Throughout the music, there’s a very playful attitude, full of joy at letting creativity run free. Two of the remarkable features of the album are the use of pipe organ and #clavichord, both of which are quite unusual and unexpected in the context of what might broadly be called #AvantRock." #ExposeOnline #CanterburyScene http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/yumi-hara-groove-study-2.html

New #review today: "What #StealingTheFire has on offer here is a powerful slab of excellent #NeoProgressive, influenced perhaps by the classic British prog school, bands like #Camel, Trick-era #Genesis, #Solstice, classic #Marillion, and a touch of #Yes, with a powerful keyboard presence throughout." #ExposeOnline #ProgRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/stealing-the-fire-a-raven-for-a-dove-3.html

New #review today: "On their Bandcamp page, #TheSunOrTheMoon declares that “#Krautrock has long since ceased to be a disrespectful generic term, but rather a seal of quality.” That seal of quality certainly applies to their second album, just as it did their debut." #ExposeOnline #SpaceRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-sun-or-the-moon-andromeda-2.html

New #review today for The #FilibusterSaloon: "The eight tracks at hand are a genuine surprise, but how to describe a purely instrumental sound of such energy and complexity? Popular melodic music infused with elements of jazz, orchestral, chamber, #ArtRock, progressive (whatever that means) folk, and of course, rock, maybe?" #ExposeOnline #AvantProg #ProgRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-filibuster-saloon-going-off-topic-3.html

New #review today: "After a pair of instrumental albums (Destinations 1 and Destinations 2), #DarrylWay has come up with The Rock Artist’s Progress, a vocal-oriented concept work. The ten songs present a story as told in a new novel by #CharlesShorwell that accompanies the album — or rather the album provides a musical illustration of the book." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/magenta-aura-darryl-way-the-rock-artists-progress-2.html

New #review today: "One might be immediately reminded of the more laid-back guitar instrumentals of the early 60s when the opening title track begins — The #Ventures, #DuaneEddy, The Shadows, #ChetAtkins, and the like. In fact #DaveLoveland played guitar in a number of instrumental guitar bands in his native England way back in the day, before he emigrated to Australia..." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/dave-loveland-dangerous-rhythm-3.html

New #review today for #TheTitillators: "The overall result is light and airy, cheerful and quirky, and sometimes comes off like a mutated radio transmission from the 1920s." #ExposeOnline #Titillators #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-titillators-thats-the-night-2.html

New #review today: "In composer #SherryFinzer’s toolbox are a variety of flutes, the primary instruments she has been working with for many years through classical, pop, jazz, world music and more, to arrive at the point where she is today – an understanding that the introspective, meditative sounds of the #flute, played as a purely solo endeavor has the power to calm the mind, relieve stress, and unlock the power to heal physical ailments." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/sherry-finzer-the-gratitude-project-3.html

New #review today: "In the midst of the pandemic after the release of their first album, #StrangeHorizon joined forces with Eirik Arnstem of #Kryptograf and began working in the rehearsal building Skur 14, hence the album title." #ExposeOnline #HeavyMetal #ProgMetal #ProgRock #ApollonRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/strange-horizon-skur-14-6.html

New #review today: "Here at Exposé, our last reference to #PatrickBroguière was back in 1999, with the review of his fourth album, Mont Saint-Michel, after which we seem to have lost track. Broguière’s follow up to that album was Châteaux de la Loire in 2000, but it’s only now in 2023 that we’ve got some new music from him." #ExposeOnline #ProgRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/patrick-broguiere-chateaux-de-la-loire-a-secret-world-2.html

New #review today: "#Aarktica is the solo ambient / atmospheric vehicle of #JonDeRosa, who is also a member of #BlackTapeForABlueGirl, and though through the years Aarktica has taken on a number of different styles, from post-rock to #ambient to #DreamPop to #shoegaze, often with vocals, Paeans is the first album since the 2000 debut No Solace in Sleep to be entirely instrumental." #ExposeOnline #ProjektRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/aarktica-paeans-3.html

New #review today: "A few years ago, we covered Laughing Up Your Sleeve, a collection of demos by the English band #Unicorn. At hand we have a new reissue of the group’s third studio album, originally released in 1976. For the band’s history, refer to the previous review - suffice it to say that Unicorn’s basic style was a blend of rock, folk, and country music not far removed from such American bands as Crosby, Stills and Nash or The Band..." #ExposeOnline #ClassicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/unicorn-too-many-crooks-2.html

New #review today: "For the second #Tryon release, composer Kellen Mills has further refined and expanded the scope of his work from Läuterung. Freaky Squash Baby features a large ensemble... some of the music is elaborately arranged with complex interactions between the parts very much in the mode of such 20th Century composers as Stravinsky, but informed by a significant dose of #FrankZappa’s more expansive work." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #AvantJazz #RIO http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/tryon-freaky-squash-baby-2.html

New review today: "Some of the best kept secrets of the Japanese progressive music scene were the bands and projects of #HirofumiKawahara (#Osiris, #AstralTempel, and #Heretic) probably because they didn’t fit into any of the convenient styles like symphonic progressive or the #AvantProgressive that followed. Now after 44 years of musical activity, Kawahara’s entire body of work to date is being released in digital format by #Cuneiform." #ExposeOnline #AvantProg http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/heretic-hiro-kawahara-complete-works-3.html

New #review today: "In some ways, the music of #Terms strikes me as being the audio equivalent of a kaleidoscope, with live musicians creating music that sounds as if it had been created by some kind of fractured reflective process applied to #ArtPunk recordings. The tracks are constructed of bits that could be imagined as riffs and segments of energetic rock tunes, but they’ve been deconstructed and assembled into nearly unrecognizable forms." #ExposeOnline #MathRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/terms-hoarder-of-operations-asbestos-mouth-all-becomes-indistinct-2.html

New #review today: "Subtracted Soundscapes is #JohanAgebjörn’s eighth full length album (including the two with Mikael Ogren). So what exactly is a “subtracted” soundscape, anyway? The eight tracks are pieces that were released on some of Agebjörn’s previous releases (on #SpottedPeccary and other labels) but have now had parts subtracted from them, to arrive at something calmer, gentler, and warmer than the original versions." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/johan-agebjorn-subtracted-soundscapes-3.html

New #review today: "With Tears of a Cloud, #TaikoSaito presents a set of nine pieces where she’s on her own using just #vibraphone and #marimba." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/taiko-saito-tears-of-a-cloud-2.html

New #review today: "The Wild West, clouds of dust kicked up by galloping horses, cowboys, smoke-filled saloons, harmonicas, banjos, and twangy guitars - elements that come to mind with the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone and with #Delrei #AlessandroMercanzin, a composer who stands alone on a dusty prairie with a six-gun in hand and a ring of sweat around the rim of his hat, influenced by western movies and with a willingness to give that concept another go." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/delrei-alessandro-mercanzin-desolation-and-radiation-3.html

New #review today: "Bleed is the second album of music by the trio of #MarkusReuter, #TimMotzer, and #KennyGrohowski, a follow-up to Shapeshifters (2020), and as such it’s very much in the same vein." #ExposeOnline #improvisation #AvantRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/reuter-motzer-grohowski-bleed-2.html